Thats a pity it cannot hold the entire rig. I was thinking about Copter that could hold a freedom360 rig.. I personally feel that ht freedom would be the better choice since it secures the cameras much better... There are other Copter types which are also quite cheap...

There are so many issue with using this kind of technology.. In Australia just about impossible around suburbia.. I think I would need a licence to fly one too even in the bush... I guess if it was in the middle of the desert then fine... No one would know.. The police in Australia are now using this technology for all kinds of situations...

Destiny wrote:There are so many issue with using this kind of technology.. In Australia just about impossible around suburbia.. I think I would need a licence to fly one too even in the bush... I guess if it was in the middle of the desert then fine... No one would know..

Destiny..

They had a multi-copter rig at the Sochi Winter Olympics filming competitors in the Snowboard and Ski Slopestyle events, perhaps elsewhere too.

There are very strict regulations in the UK for use of this type of technology.

Commercial use currently banned in the US although there are moves to get this changed soon, and there are many operating illegally.

The guy that owns Amazon was on our news where it highlighted him poring huge amounts of money into testing parcel deliveries using an automated copter technology... The US have laws that suggest he will never be allowed to do it.. It also highlighted all the logistical issues... Stupid idea if you ask me... He would be better off sending me the money... hahhahhaha.... I would spend it on cameras, lenses, shoes and......

-Fly to a preset GPS-location including height.-shoot a panorama with rows and columns from a certain direction to a certain direction on compass and vertically rotating camera without bring itself out of balance-return to start-location

Of course no need to do this over very long distances, it is fine if it can do this for a line of sight of 100m

with this drone this will be possible in theory, I will test it in July with mine...but I doubt the GPS precision is high enough. one row panos will be possible by turning the drone in defined steps (degrees), but there is no available payload to build in an additional 3 axis gimbal.

... but the good News... I know one drone which can do this... for about 4.000 US$ including one drone, one Gopro HD3+... in one hour I can post the link to this drone....Georg

EDIT:the "european kit" where you've to buy the gopro seperateley:http://www.dslrpros.com/Products/tabid/ ... fault.aspx3800 US$ ... 4 accus for 80min flight time included. Googles included with live Video footage from copter including live flight data (horizon, altitude, gps etc...). seperate Monitor for live Image from copter etc.a Review of the older (older batteries with much longer charger times) Version:http://provideocoalition.com/jfoster/st ... ial-kit/P2(bottom of this review: the most ugly scenery to film on ;-)) is shown on that Video, but nevertheless implressive showing the Features ;-))

HansKeesom wrote:One axis is enough, just vertical looking down and up again. Horizontal can be done by drone. No other axis needed.

Biggest problem of drones is not the price but all rules that pop up, it is allmost impossible to fly them commercially. Not that I disagree with these rules.

no joke ... following line do reflect current law in Austria valid since 1.1.2014:

you can fly any drone of any size IF you fly them with eye contact. so the above Phantom drone can be flown up to 200-250m distance. if you cant see the drone in distance or no line of sight does exist you ARE ALLOWED to fly the drone FI you can show a proof of a valid Cessna pilot's license or similar airplanes... no April joke...

(other restrictions do also exist of course covering Topics like privacy, insurances etc)

The guy talking on TV about them said in Australia we can use them as long as we have line of sight.. No problems which is good.. Also, you can use them to add GPS code where they can fly autonomously but I do not think that would be legal unless you can still see it.. I wonder if its possible to screw a Freedom 360 rig under it.. but I guess you would need higher feet for it.. So it can land..

The guy talking on TV about them said in Australia we can use them as long as we have line of sight.. No problems which is good.. Also, you can use them to add GPS code where they can fly autonomously but I do not think that would be legal unless you can still see it.. I wonder if its possible to screw a Freedom 360 rig under it.. but I guess you would need higher feet for it.. So it can land..